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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
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Automated, live fact-checks during the State of the Union? The Tech & Check Cooperative’s first beta test hopes to pull it offIs automated fact-checking the “holy grail” for this corner of journalism? By Christine Schmidt. |
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In India, the BBC wants to partner with local companies to develop new ways to personalize contentIn a country where the 10 most popular languages are all spoken by at least 25 million people, creating content that’s relevant to everyone is a tall order — which is why the BBC World Service needs some help. By Ricardo Bilton. |
What We’re Reading
Digiday / Ross Benes
Purch is a publisher with a $24 million business in licensing ad tech →
“By licensing software, Purch is aiming to build a revenue stream in an area that most publishers have avoided. This is because most publishers don't have the resources or patience to build their own ad tech, let alone build tech that can be licensed to other media companies.”
Washington Post / Margaret Sullivan
Criticism of the New York Times has reached fever pitch. Here’s why. →
“What the Times does really matters, affecting the whole media and political ecosystem. When it exerts its muscle, it can change the course of history. And when it errs — in fact or in judgment — the consequences can be monumental. And err it does.”
Axios / Kia Kokalitcheva
Tenor taps media companies to build a business out of GIFs →
Select media companies, such as PopSugar and Rockyou, are selling GIF sponsorships to their own advertisers.
Digiday / Max Willens
Local digital news publishers are ignoring display revenue →
Instead, more are experimenting with non-display formats, such as Increasingly, local publishers are selling non-display ad formats, such as paid placement in local events calendars, native ads in newsletters, and sponsored site sections.
Digiday / Jessica Davies
Thanks to GDPR, the chief data protection officer is a new key role at publishers →
It’s also a role in it’s own chief data protection officers can’t have any conflict of interests with other roles in a company, so the job can’t be combined with other responsibilities. Many companies plan to outsource to external DPOs.
The New York Times / Raymond Zhong
Toutiao, a high-flying Chinese app, delivers personalized content to millions. China’s censors have noticed →
“Last week, the Beijing bureau of China's top internet regulator accused Toutiao of ‘spreading pornographic and vulgar information’ and ‘causing a negative impact on public opinion online.’ In response, the app's parent company, Beijing Bytedance Technology, took down or temporarily suspended the accounts of more than 1,100 bloggers that it said had been publishing ‘low-quality content.’ It also replaced the app’s ‘society’ section with a new section called "New Era," which is heavy on state media coverage of government decisions.”
The Intercept / James Risen
My life as a New York Times reporter in the shadow of the war on terror →
“But overall, I do believe that the fight inside the Times over the NSA story helped usher in a new era of more aggressive national security reporting at the paper. Since then, the Times has been much more willing to stand up to the government and refuse to go along with White House demands to hold or kill stories.”